Predicting mortality from human faces

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 560-566

  Dykiert, Dominika ^a   Bates, Timothy C ^a   Gow, Alan J ^a   Penke, Lars ^a   Starr, John M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

face rating; mortality; perceived age; rated age; survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FACE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WELLBEING;

EID: 84863725180     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318259c33f     Document Type: Article

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